Reconciling opposites

[sillypumpkins]

I've heard this phrase being used to describe peeps like Jesus.

Anyways, I've been studying astrology lately and learned recently of the north and south nodes of the moon. For those who are unfamiliar, each north/south node combination are sort of polarities of the astrological signs. Virgo/Piscses, Piscses/Virgo, Aries/Libra, Scorpio/Taurus, these are all north/south node configurations. They don't deviate. So Taurus/Scorpio will always be paired, Virgo/Pisces, etc. You can switch the two signs around, but Taurus will never be paired Libra for example.

Anyways, the south node is representative of what you've already worked on in past lives. I am a Pisces south node, which means that I tend toward things like escapism, the arts, emotionality, and generally sort of a structureless way of living. Obviously that is just one way of looking at it. It's the mode of being I've adapted over however many lives. We are good at being "in our south node", naturally.

Our north node, however, is going to be the opposite. It's what we need in order to balance out the south node. My north node is Virgo, which is a very intentional and structured sort of feeling sign. Virgo has is good at establishing boundaries. The complete opposite of Pisces.

The idea is that you adopt the way of being of your north node in order to balance out the already-latent south node. A meeting in the middle, as it were.

As I was learning about these, the phrase "reconciling opposites" came to mind. It sort of feels like that's what the north and south node refer to a little bit. I guess it cleared things up for me, because I was a little stuck on the phrase.

Anyways, does "reconciling opposites" come up in any other metaphysical things that you have explored? I figured I'd put my discovery out there and maybe we can explore ways that other systems look at it

EDIT: The meeting of the masculine and feminine seems to be a sort of reconciliation of opposites. The Fool tarot card, with their androgynous look, seems to carry a similar connotation...

[Aion]

5.2 Questioner: We have decided to accept, if offered, the honor/duty of learning/teaching the healing process. I would ask as to the first step which we should accomplish in becoming effective healers.

Ra: I am Ra. We shall begin with the first of the three teachings/learnings.

We begin with the mental learn/teachings necessary for contact with intelligent infinity. The prerequisite of mental work is the ability to retain silence of self at a steady state when required by the self. The mind must be opened like a door. The key is silence.

Within the door lies an hierarchical construction you may liken unto geography and in some ways geometry, for the hierarchy is quite regular, bearing inner relationships.

To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.

The second mental discipline is acceptance of the completeness within your consciousness. It is not for a being of polarity in the physical consciousness to pick and choose among attributes, thus building the roles that cause blockages and confusions in the already-distorted mind complex. Each acceptance smoothes part of the many distortions that the faculty you call judgment engenders.

The third discipline of the mind is a repetition of the first but with the gaze outward towards the fellow entities that it meets. In each entity there exists completeness. Thus, the ability to understand each balance is necessary. When you view patience, you are responsible for mirroring in your mental understanding, patience/impatience. When you view impatience, it is necessary for your mental configuration of understanding to be impatience/patience. We use this as a simple example. Most configurations of mind have many facets, and understanding of either self polarities, or what you would call other-self polarities, can and must be understood as subtle work.

The next step is the acceptance of the other-self polarities, which mirrors the second step.

These are the first four steps of learning mental discipline. The fifth step involves observing the geographical and geometrical relationships and ratios of the mind, the other mind, the mass mind, and the infinite mind.

The second area of learn/teaching is the study/understanding of the body complexes. It is necessary to know your body well. This is a matter of using the mind to examine how the feelings, the biases, what you would call the emotions, affect various portions of the body complex. It shall be necessary to both understand the bodily polarities and to accept them, repeating in a chemical/physical manifestation the work you have done upon the mind bethinking the consciousness.

The body is a creature of the mind’s creation. It has its biases. The biological bias must be first completely understood and then the opposite bias allowed to find full expression in understanding. Again, the process of acceptance of the body as a balanced, as well as polarized, individual may then be accomplished.

It is then the task to extend this understanding to the bodies of the other-selves whom you will meet. The simplest example of this is the understanding that each biological male is female; each biological female is male. This is a simple example. However, in almost every case wherein you are attempting the understanding of the body of self or other-self, you will again find that the most subtle discernment is necessary in order to fully grasp the polarity complexes involved.

At this time we would suggest closing the description until the next time of work so that we may devote time to the third area commensurate with its importance.

We can answer a query if it is a short one before we leave this instrument.

[Dtris]

Yin and Yang, the Taiji Diagram. Extreme Yin becomes Yang, Extreme Yang becomes Yin. Within Yin there must be Yang, within Yang there must be Yin. The Tao is the beginning. Tao gives birth to Wuji, Wuji becomes Taiji, Taiji leads to Heaven and Earth, which creates the myriad of things.